Will Cullen Hart, a founding member of the Athens, Georgia, indie-rock collective Elephant 6, died on Friday, November 29, of a coronary heart assault, in keeping with a press release on the Elephant 6 website. One of the musician’s Elephant 6 co-founders, Robert Schneider, shared that Hart died “suddenly, peacefully, and in a very happy mood around the release of the two new OTC songs”—the just lately launched Olivia Tremor Control singles “The Same Place” and “Garden of Light.” Will Cullen Hart was 53 years outdated.
Born in Athens, in 1971, Hart grew up in Ruston, Louisiana, alongside Schneider, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum. As youngsters, the 4 put out residence recordings below the Elephant 6 banner, and, after finishing highschool, Doss, Hart, and Mangum moved to Athens, the place they fashioned the Olivia Tremor Control. Schneider ended up in Denver, Colorado, the place he based the Elephant 6 Recording Company label to place out music created by his band Apples in Stereo. Hart, a visible artist, created many of the art work for his personal band and others related to the collective.
The Olivia Tremor Control launched their first correct album, Music From the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, in 1996, the yr after Mangum’s departure from the group. More music adopted earlier than the group disbanded in 2000. The subsequent yr, Hart fashioned Circulatory System and launched the brand new band’s debut album. Both of his bands remained dormant till 2009 when the Olivia Tremor Control reunited and Circulatory System shared their second album, Signal Morning. The Olivia Tremor Control’s resurgence was slowed, nonetheless, by Bill Doss’ death in 2012.
Hart’s final album with Circulatory System, Mosaics Within Mosaics, got here out in 2014. That identical yr, an Elephant 6 documentary was announced, and it might finally see a wide release, in 2022, as A Future History Of: The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
“Will was infinitely chatty, infinitely funny, infinitely expressive, infinitely creative,” Robert Schneider wrote in his eulogy for Hart, “He was infinitely loved by me, and by his bandmates and the Elephant 6 and Athens communities.”
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